The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 are now available on the NuGet gallery .
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We are happy to announce that the ODataLib 6.10.0 is released and available on NuGet . Detailed release notes are listed below:
New Features:
[ GitHub issue #1 ] EdmLib now supports EdmError/EdmLocation containing file name.
[ GitHub issue #26...

The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 RC are now available on the NuGet gallery .
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The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 beta are now available on the NuGet gallery .
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Introduction
Today, along with the increasing demands of Location-Based Services (LBS), it becomes more and more important to provide functionalities on SQL Spatial Data through a unique, robust and scalable service based on a standard protocol.
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Dear OData blog readers,
The commenting system is not working. The MSDN support team has been reached out to and the rough fix timeline is early Feb.
During this time, any advice or suggestion please send mail to odatafeedback@microsoft.com or open...

What is RESTier
RESTier is a RESTful API development framework for building standardized, OData V4 based REST services on .NET. It can be seen as a middle-ware on top of Web API OData. RESTier is built with the inspiration of combining simplicity of...

This post is to guide you through the custom payload format support in ODataLib, which was introduced in ODataLib 6.9.0 release.
All the sample codes in this post have been put to ODataSamples project , you can check it out under Scenarios\CustomFormat...

We are happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services tooling version 5.6.3. It enables “Add Service Reference” to work with .NET 4.5.2 for consuming OData V1-3 services.
Previously, when you try to “Add Service Reference”...

Introduction
Functions and actions are two of the most important parts in OData. They are always very useful to define special/customized server-side behaviors to process the data in OData services.
From OData V4 spec , functions and actions both...

We are happy to announce that the ODataLib 6.8.0 is released. Detailed release notes are listed below.
Bug Fix
Remove the ordering constraint in ODataLib which forces instance annotations of a property to come before the property in complex value...

This post is to guide you through the extension support of OData URI parser, which was added in ODataLib 6.7 release .
You can refer to the following article for basic usage of OData URI parser:
[Tutorial & Sample] Using ODataUriParser for...

The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!
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Install...

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.7.0 is released and available on NuGet . Detailed release notes are listed below:
New Features
EdmLib supports a list of additional core vocabulary terms - IsLanguageDependent - RequiresType - ResourcePath...

The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!
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After WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider version 1.0.0-alpha2 was released, we got lots of valuable feedbacks from customers. Recently we summarized all the feedbacks and fixed the most critical bugs reported. Now we are happy to announce the...

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.6.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code on codeplex (please read the git history for the v6.6.0 code info and all previous version). Detailed release notes are listed below.
Bug Fix...

Unsigned integers can be useful in many ways, such as representing data sizes, resource handles and so on. Though OData V4 only supports signed integer natively, the protocol offers a flexible way called type definition to allow users to ‘define’...

In OData Client 6.5.0, together with OData Client Code Generator 2.0.0, we have improved the user experience on the client side by introducing delayed query into it. This feature enables valid compositions as many as you want when building a query in...

We are happy to announce that the OData Client Code Generator is released and available on Visual Studio Gallery . In this release, we focused on lighting up more OData features and the usability of the generated APIs while preserving the most consistency...

Background
This post is intended to guide you through the UriParser for OData V4, which is released within ODataLib V6.0 and later.
You may have already read the following posts about OData UriParser in ODataLib V5.x:
Parsing $filter and ...